Alex Rodriguez’s appeal hearing against Major League Baseball is set to resume next Wednesday, according to multiple industry sources.
The hearing will last through the end of next week, and then is expected to adjourn again until after the World Series.
The first week of the hearing was dominated by the testimony of MLB star witness Anthony Bosch, the founder of the now-closed South Florida anti-aging clinic Biogenesis.
Bosch is purported to have evidence documenting his communication with Rodriguez concerning Rodriguez’s alleged illegal performance-enhancing drug usage. Rodriguez’s attorney Joseph Tacopina spent the bulk of Thursday and Friday cross-examining Bosch.
Amid last week’s activity in the hearing room at MLB’s Park Avenue headquarters, Rodriguez filed two lawsuits, one against MLB and commissioner Bud Selig, and the other against Yankees team physician Christopher Ahmad and his hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian.
Rodriguez is appealing a 211-game suspension for his alleged involvement in Biogenesis as well as allegedly obstructing MLB’s investigation.
Cervelli admits PED use
Yankees catcher Francisco Cervilli, who was suspended 50 games for his role in the Biogenesis scandal, has come clean over his performance-enhancing drug use.
Cervilli told Newsday he visited the clinic in 2011 for a “quick fix” to recover from a broken left foot suffered in March of that year.
“I felt so many times in my career a little scared I’m going to lose my job,” Cervelli told the paper. “Every year I have to go to spring training and fight for a job.”
Cervelli said he apologized privately to Yankees manager Joe Girardi shortly after the suspension was the announced in August.